Brian Crosby, the innovative educator we interview this week for our "Teachers at Work" feature, recommends these two publications.

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Brian Crosby, our featured educator in this week's "Teachers at Work" column, reads these blogs dedicated to innovating in the classroom:

Borderland by Doug Noon

Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Mark's Edtechblog by Mark Ahlness

Around the Corner by Miguel Guhlin

Room 208 by Bob Sprankle

Finally, this is not a blog, per se, but Brian also recommends checking out National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for additional teaching resources.

The aim of Common Errors in English is "to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak." The way this site meets this lofty goal is to catalogue an exhaustive list of usage errors. So the next time you're trying to figure out whether "people are healthy, vegetables are healthful," just click here.

"American spelling is plainly better than English spelling, and in the long run it seems sure to prevail." Well, that's one man's opinion. But where did all the differences begin? We take a look back this month in the Lounge.  Continue reading...